White House Names First Chief Information Officer - The Caucus B. Update | 12:46 p.m.
In a 25-minute conference call, Mr. Kundra discussed some of his plans and interests, including his intention to extend the use of “cloud computing” in the federal government and to create a data.gov web site that will put vast amounts of government information into the public domain. He sketched out an ambition that is hardly modest: to shatter the assumption that government technology automatically must lag behind the private sector. Saul Hansell at Bits has more on the conference call.
First Federal Chief Information Officer | 10:06 a.m. The White House said Thursday that it had selected Vivek Kundra, 34, the chief technology officer for the District, to the federal position, where he will be expected to oversee a push to expand uses of cutting-edge technology. Information Architects Blog Archive Web Trend Map 4 - Final. By Oliver Reichenstein The has been featured all across the web from TechCrunch to BoingBoing, and Gawker.
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Imagine if you could make "friend" connections with other commenters on our site. That relationship wouldn't be reflected back into the OpenID or Facebook account that you then take to other sites. Sensors, Smart Content, and the Future of News - ReadWriteWeb. Nick Bilton from The New York Times R&D Labs was at ETech today, talking about how NYT is preparing for the future of news delivery.
His presentation explored how "sensors in every part of our lives [are] helping us aggregate smart content that is relevant to the device we are using". Bilton said that New York Times is building out more real-time analytics, device detection and granular user interaction, in order to deliver this "smart content" to each user and device. They are focused on the "3 screen" experience: web, mobile, and living room. Bilton said that NYT is also exploring "Newspaper 2.0" and next generation e-ink devices (such as flexible displays).
Changes for mobile that NYT is looking at include optimizing for the increasing popularity of touch-screen devices (fueled by the iPhone) and adjusting content on mobile devices based on what the reader clicks on - e.g. if they click for sports news then they know the user is interested in that type of content. Thesixtyone Is Building a Digg For Indie Music. The concept of building a Digg for music has been tried before (see Contrastream or iJigg), but a music streaming site called thesixtyone is the closest I’ve seen so far to getting the formula right.
It features only about 50,000 tracks self-uploaded by indie artists and music labels, but visitors can listen to the full stream of each track and vote their favorites up the rankings by hitting the “heart” button. The results are highly listenable playlists by genre, tag, or just what’s hot right now. The key to making the site work, however, is not simply the Digg-like voting system. By now, that is becoming a pretty common feature (even the Hype Machine uses hearts) and is fairly easy to manipulate.
Muziic Turns YouTube Into a Playlist Factory. Muziic, a downloadable music app that turns YouTube into a massive personalized song library, attracted lots of attention over the past few days.
Wolfram Alpha — it’s like plugging into an e. Twitter To Start Serving Local News To Users? Germany’s Der Spiegel published an interview with Twitter CEO Evan Williams yesterday on its website, and Williams had a couple of interesting things to say.
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Tornadoes in America: The Oklahoma Disaster in Context www.theatlantic.com Action News 5 - Memphis, Tennessee A massive and powerful tornado hit Moore, Oklahoma this afternoon, causing widespread destruction, including at least 51 deaths. Galaxy S 4 Active caught on camera again, reported specs are lower than regular GS4 (video) Hypebot: Slicethepie Expands Artist Fan Financing On Bebo. A new deal with Bebo extends the Slicethepie financing platform for recording artists. Under the partnership Bebo's community can take on the A&R role, earn money reviewing tracks, spot new talent and help finance the artist's next project.
In return for the investment fans get artist access, a copy of the completed album, their name on the sleeve and a share in sales. Fan involvement on Slicethepie has already been available on social networks via widgets. Imeem Mobile Streams Your MP3s to Your (Android) Phone.